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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 71: parents through Line 101: No free man needs a God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Shade's spend the evening of their daughter's blind date?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing poems.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Studying birds.

2. What event causes John Shade to have a vision of the afterlife?
(a) He gets lost in the Zemblan Mountains without food or water.
(b) He suffers a stroke.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He is hit by a car.

3. Of the following, which has been added to Shade's childhood home?
(a) A chimney.
(b) Electricity.
(c) A garage.
(d) A TV antenna.

4. Who is the previous inhabitant of Charles Kinbote's house?
(a) Judge Goldsmith.
(b) Wordsmith University's gardener.
(c) The King of Zembla.
(d) Dr. Sutton.

5. Charles Kinbote assumes John Shade wanted to write a great deal more about Zembla, but did not. Who or what does Kinbote attribute this too?
(a) John Shade's wife.
(b) Communists.
(c) Poor translation from Zemblan to English.
(d) The Shadeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not happen to the I.P.H.?

2. John Shade gives a lecture on what in Canto Three?

3. John Shade reads an article written by this person about a woman who had a similar vision?

4. What animal did Shade's parents study?

5. John Shade vows to further explore what in Canto Two?

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